Caprock falls short

Parkland had to fight tooth and nail to fend off Caprock's bid to become the first boys basketball team since the school opened in 1963 to win an area-round playoff game.

Parkland won its 15th straight, turning back Caprock 51-46 in a physical, tightly contested Region I-4A area-round game at the Odessa College Sports Center.

"It's unfortunate one team goes on and one team goes home," said first-year Caprock coach Roger Raper, whose team won the school's first boys bidistrict game since 1983. "We are the ones on the unfortunate side."